{"id":2482,"date":"2024-11-14T18:18:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T18:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/lawyer-of-alleged-gaetz-victim-release-house-ethics-report-immediately\/"},"modified":"2024-11-14T18:18:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T18:18:00","slug":"lawyer-of-alleged-gaetz-victim-release-house-ethics-report-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/lawyer-of-alleged-gaetz-victim-release-house-ethics-report-immediately\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawyer of alleged Gaetz victim: Release House ethics report \u2018immediately’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The lawyer representing a woman former Rep. Matt Gaetz allegedly had sex with when she was a minor called on the House Ethics Committee to \u201cimmediately\u201d release its report into his alleged conduct.<\/p>\n

\u201cMr. Gaetz’s likely nomination as Attorney General is a perverse development in a truly dark series of events,\u201d attorney John Clune wrote Thursday on X<\/u><\/a>. \u201cWe would support the House Ethics Committee immediately releasing their report. She was a high school student and there were witnesses.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gaetz, a conservative firebrand whom President-elect Donald Trump tapped Wednesday to serve as attorney general<\/u><\/a> \u2014 and who pushed the effort to oust former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy \u2014\u00a0 resigned<\/u><\/a> abruptly from the House Wednesday, days before the chamber\u2019s ethics panel was reportedly set to release a report of its investigation.<\/p>\n

Gaetz has repeatedly denied the allegations. A spokesperson for Gaetz did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

The former congressman was also the subject of a separate federal sex trafficking investigation by the Department of Justice \u2014 which he could soon lead \u2014 but was ultimately not prosecuted. That probe, started in 2020 during the Trump administration, was focused on whether Gaetz paid women for sex and traveled overseas<\/u><\/a> to attend parties with teenagers under the age of 18.<\/p>\n

In May, he was subpoenaed to sit for a deposition in a civil lawsuit brought against the woman with whom he allegedly had sex \u2014 who is represented by Clune \u2014 by a friend of Gaetz, ABC News reported<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n

House Ethics Chair Michael Guest (R-Miss.) told reporters Wednesday before Gaetz\u2019s resignation that the probe would end if Gaetz was no longer a member of the House \u2014 and reiterated that position on Thursday<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n

But lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have said they hope to review the report ahead of Gaetz\u2019s Senate confirmation. Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) demanded in a statement that the House Ethics Committee share its findings with the Senate Judiciary Community, saying \u201cWe cannot allow this valuable information from a bipartisan investigation to be hidden from the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n

And Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) told ABC News<\/u><\/a> on Thursday he \u201cabsolutely\u201d wants to see the report, adding: \u201cI think there should not be any limitation on the Senate Judiciary Committee\u2019s investigation, including whatever the House Ethics Committee generates.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The lawyer representing a woman former Rep. Matt Gaetz allegedly had sex with when she was a minor called on the House Ethics Committee to \u201cimmediately\u201d release its report into his alleged conduct. \u201cMr. Gaetz’s likely nomination as Attorney General is a perverse development in a truly dark series of events,\u201d attorney John Clune wrote […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}